Angelina Grimke

Overview

Angelina Grimké Weld born Charleston, SC February 20, 1805 (d. 1879). Garrisonian abolitionist; nonviolent pacifist; Quaker women's rights speaker.

Quotations

If a law commands me to sin I will break it; if it calls me to suffer, I will let it take its course unresistingly.” (Appeal to the Christian Women of the South, 1836; photo http://bit.ly/JVGeMj)